The TempestBroadview Press, 09.02.2021 - 228 Seiten The world that William Shakespeare creates in The Tempest has many features that make it recognizably like our own. There are bad, self-seeking people; brothers fall out with brothers; people who have power are reluctant to give it up; people fall in love; children love their fathers but want to break free. But there is also a fairy-spirit, music in the very air of the island, and a powerful magician who can command the elements and even, he tells us, bring the dead back to life. Combining reality and magic, Shakespeare creates an uncanny but morally coherent world. This edition features interleaved materials that expand upon allusions in the play and explore elements of its stagecraft. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and inspirations, along with historical materials on exploration and colonialism. |
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... political and ethical questions posed by colonial conquest and other forms of usurpation . The vivid illustrations and longer notes interspersed throughout the playtext itself offer the reader an experience unique to this edition ...
... Politics (fourth century BCE) 163 AppendIx B From Ovid, Metamorphoses (8 CE) 168 AppendIx c From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, The Second Democrate; or, The Just Causes of the War against the Indians (1547) 170 AppendIx d From Bartolomé de ...
... political meaning of the play, which, as we will see, is able to knit into a coherent vision a spirited argument for the value of labor and the community of laborers at one end and a defense of something like absolute loyalty to ...
... political point about the possible failings even of high-ranking people just as it does about the possible abilities and virtues of commoners. The usually good-humored counselor Gonzalo turns his own fear of 14 IntRODuctIOn.
... political rights that flow naturally from such recognition. But the boundary between human and animal was more porous for Shakespeare and his contemporaries than it is for us. It was not obvious to them that women or non-Christians or ...
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Shakespeares Life | 45 |
Shakespeares Theater | 51 |
A Brief Chronology | 57 |
A Note on the Text | 61 |
The Tempest | 65 |
From Aristotle Politics fourth century BCE | 163 |
From Ovid Metamorphoses 8 CE | 168 |
From Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda The Second Democrate or The Just Causes of the War against the Indians 1547 | 170 |
From Bartolomé de las Casas A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies 1552 | 174 |
From Michel de Montaigne Of the Cannibals 157880 | 181 |
From William Strachey A True Reportory of the Wracke 1610 | 196 |
From John Dryden and William Davenant The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1670 | 205 |
Works Cited and Select Bibliography | 217 |